Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival
Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival, returning to CCA Glasgow between 12th and 16th September, is the first Scotland-based festival dedicated exclusively to Eastern European cinema!
About Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival
We are excited to announce the second edition of Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival, following the success of its first year. The festival will run in person at the CCA Glasgow between 12th and 16th September, and online through our streaming partner Klassiki between 12th September and 5th October. As Scotland’s first and only festival of cinema from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, Samizdat will provide audiences with a wide range of films from the region, spanning decades and covering numerous themes, styles and subjects. Attendees will have the chance to see and engage with subversive, dissident, and experimental films, all the way from Poland and Ukraine to Albania and Kazakhstan.
For our second edition, we have curated a mixture of timeless retrospectives and some of the most exciting new cinema (with UK/Scotland premieres) from the region. Alongside our regular programme of films, Samizdat 2023 also includes two special film events. Our headliners this year include a Collection of Surrealist Eastern European Animation (1965-2022), and ‘House on the Volcano’ (1928), a silent Soviet Armenian classic with an original new score mixed live by its composer Juliet Merchant. The opening night will feature a Scottish Premiere of this year’s Locarno hit Safe Place (Juraj Lerotic, Croatia, 2023) and a UK premiere of animated film based on true events about a survivor of the Armenian genocide, Aurora’s Sunrise (Inna Sahakyan, Armenia, 2023). You can view our full programme and timings here: https://samizdatfest.co.uk/2023
Samizdat will take place at the CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts in the city centre of Glasgow. The CCA is a hub for much of Glasgow’s social and cultural activities, offering all-year-round local arts, exhibitions, workshops, films, performances and many other events. The CCA also works closely with Glasgow’s most cutting-edge artists, and engages in the support of local communities and organisations across the city. The venue has accessible screening spaces and is equipped with accessible toilets and lifts (you can view the full accessibility guide here). The festival will also have online screenings up until 5 October on the streaming service Klassiki, which you can join for a two-week free trial.
Samizdat aims to guarantee that the programme is financially accessible to everyone, which is why film tickets will be priced on a sliding scale, where the attendees will be invited to pay £0-£8 per film based on their preference. Special events will be priced differently, including ‘House on the Volcano’ and the showcase of surrealist animation. Every film will be shown with subtitles, and some will be screened with SDH captions (i.e. Closed Captions).
Samizdat is supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI. It is jointly funded by the William Syson Foundation.
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